Memes & Themes

Theology = Study of NOTHING

Suggested reading:

• Is Theology Harmful to Humanity?
• The Will of God: Pure Fiction

Atheophobia

The Old Myth that Atheism = Immorality

Suggested reading:

• Atheophobia, An Ancient Prejudice, and Yet So Prevalent Today

Theism: Incompatible with basic human rights.

Greatest threat to freedom of conscience: religion itself, especially fundamentalist monotheisms.

Suggested reading:

• Atheist Manifesto

Atheism, yes! But also, anti-theism.

Anti-theism is not extremist.
It is necessary self-defense.

Suggested reading:

• Atheist Manifesto

Secularism requires state institutions free of religious symbols

including those worn by staff.

Suggested reading:

• Three Declarations Against Displays of Religious Symbols
• Freedom From Religion

Freedom of religion is not fundamental.

Freedom of conscience is fundamental & includes freedom OF & FROM religion.

Suggested reading:

• Religious Privileges in Federal Legislation
• Freedom From Religion

Veiling Young Girls = Child Abuse

as unacceptable as sexual abuse.

It must be forbidden by law.

Suggested reading:

• Bill 62: Much Ado About Almost Nothing

Absolute doubt:
as untenable as absolute certainty.

Suggested reading:

• Why We Are Not Agnostics
• ABCs of Atheism

Human beings deserve respect.
Ideas and Ideologies do not.

To respect believers:
(1) defend their freedom of conscience;
(2) criticize their beliefs.

(1) & (2) are completely compatible.

Suggested reading:

• Atheist Manifesto

Religious indoctrination in Quebec:

“Ethics & Religious Culture”

Indoctrinating schoolchildren in the ideology of communitarianism.

Suggested reading:

• AFT denounces government inaction concerning the ERC Program
• The ERC Program, A Disturbing Orientation
• Seven Good Reasons to Oppose Quebec’s ERC Programme

Propaganda tools of Islamofascism:

1. Impose the veil wherever possible
2. Play the victim: e.g. accusations of “Islamophobia”
3. Identity politics: Muslim identity takes priority over citizenship or anything else

Suggested reading:

• Islam and Freethought
• Conflating Race & Religion Shows Incompetence
• Rethinking “Islamophobia”

Communitarianism (a.k.a. Multiculturalism) is incompatible with secularism.

Canadian Multiculturalism leads to cultural relativism and gives priority to ethno-religious identity over citizenship.

Suggested reading:

• The New Theocratic Party
• Communitarianism, the Main Threat to Secularism in Canada

Islamism is a variant of Islam

Radical, political Islam is not a distortion of Islam. Rather, it is a fundamentalist variant and compatible with it.

Suggested reading:

• Islam and Freethought

The far-right exists.
It’s called Islamofascism.

Other far-right movements are of little significance in Canada & Quebec.

Suggested reading:

• Islam and Freethought
• Letter to Québécois about Islam

To Mistrust Religion = Due Diligence

Extreme Intolerance is Intolerable

Suggested reading:

• A Bizarre Kind of Tolerance

Apostasy is a Human Right

“Blasphemy” is NOT a Crime

Suggested reading:

• Declaration on Blasphemy and Apostasy
• Anti-Blasphemy Legislation: A Question of Religious Privilege